This is an auspicious moment in experimental particle physics - there are large data samples at the Tevatron and a new energy regime being explored at the Large Hadron Collider with ever larger data samples. The coincidence of these two events suggests that we will soon be able to address the question: what lies beyond the standard model?Particle physics's current understanding of the universe is embodied in it. The model has been tested to extreme precision - better than a part in ten thousand - but we suspect that it is only an approximation, and that physics beyond this standard model will appear in the data of the Tevatron and LHC in the near future. This brief review touches on the status of searches for new physics at the time of the conference.

Understanding how quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interaction, works in the low-energy region, the so-called confinement region is one of the major challenges facing physicists. The structure of nucleon is one of the most active areas of research in nuclear physics addressing this challenge. In this talk, I will review recent progresses on electromagneticform factors of the nucleon including the latest intriguing situation concern the charge radius of the proton, and new results on the strange quark contribution to the electromagneticstructure of the nucleon from parity-violation electron scattering. I will also discuss recent developments in the study of the generalized parton distribution functions which provide three-dimensional imaging of the nucleon.

Ernest Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus is a landmark in science history and a century later the story behind it is well known. Generations have read of Ernest Marsden's scattering experiments and Rutherford's astonishment at the results, followed by the older man's long retreat into contemplation until the day he could announce that he "knew what the atom looked like". This paper, a commemorative presentation, reconsiders that story. The contemporaneous record is weak in some respects, indicating some need for caution in accepting details and prompting questions about why those involved did not write about it at the time. Further, the addition as context of Rutherford's ambitious program of action in atomic research at Manchester-which transformed his department-diminishes the folkloric character of the story and switches the emphasis to Rutherford's personality. In his determination to penetrate the secrets of the atom this "battleship of physics" left little to chance.

Parity-violating electron scattering opens up a new window on the structure of matter. Usually, electron scattering is thought of as an electromagnetic process, which certainly would not violate parity! But by measuring tiny parity-violating signals, the weak neutral-current interaction between the electron and the target can be isolated and measured precisely. This has led to a series of experiments that have sought to characterize the strange quark structure of the proton. The difference in the way the photon and the Z-boson couple to quarks gives these experiments their sensitivity. More recent experiments have become sufficiently precise to extract the weak mixing angle itself, the parameter that describes gamma-Z mixing in the standard model. In this way, by comparing with measurements done at high-energy collider experiments, the running of the weak mixing angle with energy scale can be deduced and compared with standard-model predictions. If a deviation from the standard model were found, this could herald the effects of new physics at the TeV scale. I review these and other applications in the field of parity-violating electron scattering, focusing on recent progress, and with a view the future of this exciting and important field.

Neutrino oscillations have been well established and indicate that neutrinos have mass and that there is mixing among the different neutrino types. On the other hand, the pattern of the oscillations has raised a number of questions. This article presents the status and plans for exploring some of these questions using accelerator and reactor neutrinos. With respect to oscillations among the three standard neutrinos, the current program for measuring the third mixing angle, θ13, will be presented along with future plans to search for CP violation and the mass hierarchy. Finally, the status of possible oscillations to sterile neutrinos is reviewed and future prospects are described.

Selected topics in lattice QCD applied to particle and nuclear physics are presented. Some emphases are placed on the determination of the baryon-baryon interaction from full QCD simulations and its future perspective.

High-energy electrons and photons are remarkably clean probes of hadronic matter, providing a microscope for examining atomic nuclei and the strong nuclear force. For more than a decade, laboratories worldwide have accumulated data for such investigations, which resulted in a number of surprising discoveries and have contributed to our understanding of the nucleon, its underlying quark structure, and the dynamics of the strong interaction. In recent high-precision experiments at Jefferson Laboratory with high-quality polarized electron beams measuring recoil polarization, one notable discovery has been the unexpected Q2 variation of the ratio of the proton elastic form-factors μpGE=GM, which suggests important contributions from quark orbital angular momentum to the spin of the nucleon. Complementary to form-factor measurements, the spectrum of excited nucleons can serve as an excellent probe of Quantum Chromodynamics(QCD), the fundamental theory of strong interactions. Since nucleons are complex systems of confined quarks, they exhibit the characteristic spectra of excited states. Highly excited nucleon states are sensitive to the details of quark confinement, which is poorly understood within QCD. The current effort at facilities worldwide studying the systematics of the nucleon spectrum is to utilize highly-polarized frozenspin (butanol) and deuterium targets in combination with polarized photon beams. These are important steps toward so-called complete experiments, which allow us to unambiguously determine the scattering amplitude in the underlying reactions and identify resonance contributions. Several new nucleon resonances have been proposed in recent years. The status of the polarization experiments and preliminary results are discussed in this contribution.

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a general purpose high energy particle detector which was successfully deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) on May 19, 2011 to conduct a unique long duration mission of fundamental physics research in space. Among the physics objectives of AMS are a search for an understanding of Dark Matter, Antimatter, the origin of cosmic rays and the exploration of new physics phenomena not possible to study from ground based experiments. This article reviews the performance of the AMS-02 detector on ISS, as well as the first results based on data collected during the first week of operation in space.

Recovery process of J-PARC from the disastrous influences of the Tohoku Regional Pacific Coast Earthquake is briefly summarized. Recovery itself is favorable for J-PARC and will be completed by the end of this year. We aim to perform 2-cycle (2 months) operation by the end of March (end of this Japanese Fiscal Year). Recent Activities of J-PARC on Particle and Nuclear Physics are also described.

Nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider(RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) occur at energies that enable the creation of a new state of matter, called the quark-gluon plasma, with an energy density similar to that achieved in the early universe shortly after the Big Bang. The medium generated in such collisions exhibits collective behavior characteristic of a strongly coupled, near-inviscid fluid, which undergoes a rapid three-dimensional expansion. I will present a review of the most striking observations made with heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. The new data from RHIC and the LHC explore the evolution of the quark-gluon plasma state over two orders of magnitude in collision energy, allowing significant tests of phenomenological models that have successfully described earlier data.

The medium-modifications of processes characterized by the presence of a hard scale provide the most diverse tools to characterize the properties of the matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions. Indeed, jet quenching, the suppression of particles produced at high transverse momentum, has been established at RHIC almost a decade ago as one of the main tools in heavy-ion collisions. The melting of quarkonia is expected to provide also information about the temperature and the properties of the produced medium. The beginning of the LHC era for hot QCD studies starts with the first nuclear beams in 2010. The amount of information produced by this first run is overwhelming: The three experiments with nuclear program (ALICE, ATLAS and CMS) have provide new results in basically all subjects considered in previous experiments and have also shown the potential to make nuclear collisions at the TeV scale for the first time. I will review what the results from both RHIC and LHC imply for our understanding of hot and dense QCD matter from a theorists' perspective and how these new results change some of the concepts we developed in the last years. Particular attention is devoted to the case of jets, as the first data recently published from the LHC and the limitations of previous approaches call for a new theory of jets in a medium.

We give a brief overview of the basic philosophy behind applying gauge/gravity duality to problems in heavy ion physics. Recent progress regarding viscosities, anomalous hydrodynamics,energy loss, as well as thermalization will be reviewed.

An overview of the searches for Higgs bosons at the Tevatron and the LHC is presented. The main Higgs production and decay modes are introduced, and the analysis techniques are described. The most recent results from direct Tevatron and LHC Higgs searches are presented.

Progress in particle and nuclear physics has been closely connected to the progress in accelerator technologies - a connection that is highly beneficial to both fields. This paper presents a review of the present and future facilities and accelerator technologies that will push the frontiers of high-energy particle interactions and high intensity secondary particle beams.

A combination is presented of the inclusive cross sections measured by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations in neutral and charged current deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA. The combination uses data from unpolarized ep scattering taken during the HERA-I phase as well as measurements with longitudinally polarized electron or positron beams from the HERAII running period. The combination method takes the correlations of systematic uncertainties into account. The inclusion of the large HERA-II data set leads to an improved uncertainty especially at large four momentum transfer squared Q2.

An experiment designed to measureparity violation in the deep inelastic scattering of electrons from deuterium by using a novel solenoidal spectrometer (SoLID) has recently been approved at JLab. The main goal of the experiment is to make a precise measurement of the parity-violating coupling of the electron to the axial current of the quark. By covering a broad range of kinematics, the experiment will also search for charge symmetry violation in the structure functions. In addition the experiment is sensitive to di-quarks.

Exclusive production of vector mesons was studied with the HERMES spectrometer at the DESY laboratory by scattering 27.6 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons or positrons off unpolarized hydrogen and deuterium as well as off transversely polarized hydrogen internal targets. Results of the measurements of the Spin Density Matrix Elements (SDMEs) for ρ0 and φ, the ratios of helicity amplitudes for ρ0 on unpolarized H and D targets as well as of the transverse target spin asymmetry (AUT) for ω and φ production on a transversely polarized H target will be reported.

Hard exclusive leptoproduction of real photons on nucleons and nuclei, Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS), is one of the theoretically cleanest ways to access Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs). The theoretical framework of GPDs includes parton distribution functions and form factors as limiting cases and as moments of GPDs, respectively, and can provide a multidimensional representation of the structure of hadrons at the partonic level. The HERMES experiment at DESY, Hamburg, collected a wealth of data on DVCS utilizing the HERA polarized electron or positron beams with an energy of 27.6 GeV and longitudinally and transversely polarized or unpolarized gas targets (H, D or heavier nuclei). The azimuthal asymmetries measured in the DVCS process allow access to the imaginary and/or real part of certain combinations of GPDs. For the last two years of HERA running, the HERMES collaboration installed a recoil detector to improve the selection of DVCS events by direct measurement of the recoil protons. An overview of recent HERMES results on DVCS including first results obtained with the recoil detector is presented.